The global spice trade has played an essential role in world history. However, because of poor preservation conditions, archaeobotanical remains of spices...
Archaeologists in Brazil say they have unearthed 25,000- to 27,000-year-old pendants made of bony material from the extinct giant ground sloth Glossotherium...
Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon, the United States, is one of the oldest human-occupation sites in North America.
Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon,...
Paleontologists have described an extinct species of the fallow deer genus Dama from fossils found in Spain.
Life reconstruction of Dama celiae in the...
Oldowan tools, consisting of stones with one to a few flakes removed, are the oldest widespread and temporally persistent hominin tools. The oldest of...
According to a paper by Washington State University anthropologist Rachel Horowitz, the ruling Maya elite in the K’iche’ region of what is now Guatemala...
Archaeologists have unearthed an assemblage of 14 stemmed projectile points at the Cooper’s Ferry site, located on a terrace of the lower Salmon River...
Scientists at the University of Tübingen have performed a careful and in-depth analysis of tiny resharpening flakes from the famous Middle Pleistocene...
The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis...
Early stone tools represent one of the most important technological milestones in human evolution. The production and use of sharp stone tools significantly...
In a new paper published this week in the journal Science Advances, paleoanthropologists report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal...
Archaeologists have examined a large assemblage of 45,000-year-old stone tools and by-products of tool-making process from the site of Heidenschmiede in...
The two ancient obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged archaeological site beneath Lake Huron represent the oldest and farthest east confirmed...
Archaeologists from Griffith University, the University of New England and the Balai Arkeologi Sulawesi Selatan have examined a collection of stone and...
A team of paleoanthropologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, CNRS and the University of Toronto has examined artifacts and sediments found in...
New research by Griffith University and University of Cape Town scientists provides the first traceological evidence of multipurpose nature of Australian...
The 357,000-year-old abrader found in the Lower Paleolithic layers of Tabun Cave in Israel is presently the earliest documented artifact of its kind.
The...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of 2-million-year-old stone tools, fossilized bones...
